Bucket.



J. S. BARRON BUGKET.

APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 15, 1910.-

Patented May 31,1910.

JAMES S. BARRON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUCKET.

Application filed January 15, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs S. BARRON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in buckets 0r pails, and particularly to a construction which will withstand hard usage. In the employment of buckets for handling cement, asphalt and like heavy products, it is a common practice, in discharging the contents, to pound the upturned bucket upon its rim in order to loosen and free the bucket of these materials. This use not only is liable to injure the staves, but to dislodge the hoops, rendering the pail or bucket useless in a very short time. My invention aims at providing a construction which is particularly designed to resist this method of use, although other advantages will be apparent from a reading of the following description.

The preferable form of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the bucket on a substantially reduced scale, and showing the upper end. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the lower end. Fig. 3 is a relatively enlarged section of a part of the bucket.

The body of the bucket is made up of the usual staves 1.

22 are metal hoops arranged externally of the staves and to hold them together.

3 are rivets preferably employed to hold the hoops in place.

4 is a stout inner reinforcing metal band arranged at the upper edge of the bucket, a suitable recess being provided in the staves to receive the band 4. The upper outermost hoop 2 is arranged upon substantially the plane of the internal reinforcing band, so that the rivets 33 by which the upper hoop is secured in place may also penetrate through and secure the band 4.

The recess in the staves 1, receiving the band 4, is best seen in sectional view, Fig. 3, and, as will be seen, the lower edge of the recess constitutes a reinforcing and supporting shoulder for the band, whereby said band is supported in such a manner that when the pail is hammered on its upper edge in the act of discharging the contents, as

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 31, 1910.

Serial No. 538,185.

above indicated, the displacement of the band will be resisted by the internal reinforcing support provided by the shoulder at the lower edge of the recess in which said band is arranged, thus relieving the rivets 3 of a substantial part of said strain.

Supplementing the construction thus far described, and for the purpose of further resisting the hard usage to which these articles are subjected, I prefer to pro ide wear straps 5, which are arranged vertically at the opposite edges of the bucket at points about midway between the ends of the usual bail or handle 10. These wear straps may be se cured by rivets 6. 7 is a band extending under the bucket and up on opposite sides of the same, and being securcdby rivets 7 to the pail or bucket, said band 7 being provided as a means not only of tying together the various parts embraced thereby, but also furnishing a bearing for the ends of the bail 10. In this particular instance the ends of the bail are connected to the band 7, as indi cated at 9, Fig. 2. 8 is a reinforcing cleat or filler for the bottom of the pail.

As will be observed, the internal reinforc ing band 4 is so constructed and arranged that its presence will not impede the free discharge of the contents of the pail, inasmuch as it lies substantially flush with the inner wall of the pail. Furthermore, the wear members 55 (any desired number of which may be provided) are also so arranged that the free discharge of the contents of the pail is not impaired.

Vhat I claim is:

1.- As an article of manufacture, a bucket comprising a body portion, a hoop secured to the outside of said body portion adjacent to the rim, a recess extending around the body at its upper inner edge and forming a supporting shoulder, and an internal reinforcing band located in said recess and bearing against said shoulder the upper edge of said band being substantially flush with the upper edge of the bucket.

2. As an article of manufacture, a bucket comprising a body portion, a hoop secured to the outside of said body portion adjacent to the rim, a recess extending around the body at its upper inner edge and forming a supporting shoulder, an internal reinforcing band located in said recess and bearing against said shoulder, and means operating to connect said external hoop and internal reinforcing band the upper edge of said band being substantially flush with the upper edge of the bucket.

3. As an article of manufacture, a bucket comprising a body portion, a hoop secured to the outside of said body portion adjacent to the rim, a recess extending around the body at its upper inner edge and forming a supporting shoulder, an internal reinforcing band located in said recess and bearing against said shoulder, a Wear member overstanding and embracing said hoop and reinforcing band, and means for securing said 'wear member in place.

4. As an article of manufacture, a bucket comprising a body portion, a metallic hoop secured to the outside of the rim thereof, a metallic reinforcing band extending around the inner side of the rim and se cured to said outer hoop at intervals, said hoop and said band being substantially flush with the rim, a bail for said bucket, and Wear members located on the rim at right angles to said bail and extending over said hoop and band and secured to the rim.

5. As an article of manufacture, a bucket comprising a body portion built up of staves arranged edge to edge, the upper inner edge of said staves being recessed to form an inner supporting shoulder at: the discharge rim of the bucket, a horizontally arranged internal reinforcing strip in the recessed portion and bearing against the shoulders and overlapping a plurality of staves, and an external strip around the outer side of the bucket at its upper edge and opposite to said first mentioned strip, with means for connecting said strips.

JAMES S. BARRON.

Witnesses NELSON O. DENNIS, GRACE V. LAISSER. 

